Hi,
I signed up to Prorealtime Premium and some Indices but unfortunately all their lovely historical data is eg. 9am-5pm or 3pm-9pm depending on the Indices. Which trips up my trading systems.
I was thinking that if I can link Premium to the 24hour IG data then I would have access to the 200K or 1M Units of historical data (lots more historical data via Premium)
Is this incorrect? IG have told me they do not store extra historical data, but I am never quite certain when calling customer support.
It looks unlikely I can get all the extra historical data, and 24 hours of trading data each day (that you get with IG)
I would be very grateful for your help
thanks
and some Indices
Interesting … which indices have the limited data you mention above?
Eg. Ftse is ukx in prorealtime and 9-5. DJI is 3pm -9pm. All their historic data is within those times, when trading or using probacktest direct from them, as far as i can see.
But in IG you can trade outside those hours too
Thanks for bringing this up Ste … to my knowledge, nobody has ever made this very valid point about the Premium version.
So Systems designed to run on IG 24 hour data Platform will not run (correctly) on Premium … so how have users of Premium been getting around this … do you use bespoke Systems just for Premium?
Anybody any comments please??
Thanks. I’ve spent abit of time rewritting one system to get over the blip between trading hours, but not too happy about it. It is possible to correct and probably depends on what indicators are used.
In the meantime IG sent me this link. So far signing up hasnt got me anywhere because IG recognise I already had an account with them. I will persist and update with news 🙂
http://www.trading.prorealtime.com/en/ig
I had the same problem creating a PRT sponsored account a couple of months ago when I already had an account with IG, you can either try and get round it by using a different email (I tried setting up an AOL account just to do it), IG also suggested using the same email but using googlemail instead of gmail if you are gmail user. Initially I was told by someone in support that it wasn’t even possible until I told them I had already done it 3 years ago. You have to persist in the end they put me through to a woman in accounts who was very helpful and I was able to get it all setup. Good luck I imagine they have a lot of other support stuff to deal with right now.
Thank you, IG have been good at getting back to me, despite the virus. I do seem to get a different answer each time!
So you get extra history of IGs CFD data, is that correct? More than the default prorealtime via IG?
Sorry can’t help with the CFD data question as I only spread bet just wanted to share my experience of setting up the account, once you are setup you will be able to answer your own question 🙂
Hi,
I got there in the end. Eventually I was sent a short disclaimer which I had to put my account number (its all letters) from my IG in. I returned this and had to credit the account with some money. This was for the £30 charge per month if account is not live trading. Apparently some of the spread gets shared with Prorealtime the company so the disclaimer was for that. Otherwise nothing is different that I can see.
My Prorealtime now has a lot more historic data for their CFDs/spread bets, which is really useful for testing, obviously. Apart from that there is no other information or labelling that tells you you now have the sponsored account. There still isnt as much as you really need to test with, in my opinion, but it is more reassuring.
When paying for Prorealtime directly you get 1M Units (1 million units!) and you can even test time ranges in the past to go back even further. This works out at many years, (10+) and even with the smaller time frames. The toss up is that Prorealtime charge over £100 per month and they use market data only from market open times, not 24hr CFD/spread bets like IG. I found those harder to make a system for, because of the jumps at open/close.
Very informative overall view Ste, many thanks … I have Favourited this Topic in case I am ever tempted to take out a Premium Account!
So how many Markets / Instruments does £100 per month get you??
The link above inst working now, but there definitely was a specific link, IG sent me it! might need to root around in their main site-
https://www.prorealtime.com/en/prices
You have to build up the package for what you need. Most of tickets have different names (if you are only used to IG), Oil is under Nymex for example-
good tip- they currently bill to the end of the month, so if you join mid month you only end up paying for the remainder e.g. 2 weeks. Just need to remember to cancel before the 31st or thereabouts.
Hi, I just came across this old post.. and i’m considering “upgrading” my existing live IG/PRT account to the PRT premium version so I get the additional backtest data (1M data points) However….
can anyone confirm if:
1. The PRT premium version (with 1M units backtest) gives you all 24h data from the DAX? As per the current IG data (but with only 100k units) ?
thanks!
This is with Premium (live). See the units chosen, but also mind the “ticker”. So if you can tell me which ticker or ID to really obtain, and which time frame etc. …
There may be more than what you see in the second attachment.
ou have to build up the package for what you need.
Does the link in the post above yours tell you the answer you want?
If No, then in what way doesn’t the link answer your question and then others may be able to fill in the gaps?
I think monobrow was asking do you get 24hrs worth of data with PRT premium.
I haven’t checked in months, but I believe the answer is no.
IG allow 24hr trading, and have historical data for this. PRT have their own historical data but its not from 24hr , as they only allow trading when the markets are actually open. Eg 9-5
IGs spread bet / CFD products are their own, and 24hr trading/data is something they specifically offer customers. The data will be similar, because IGs are still based on e.g. the actual DAX, but not the same.
